Thierings on Tour

We’re officially into week 2 of our trip! The first week has both flown past and has felt like an eternity. Time is a funny thing! 

With all our clean washing and renewed energy for van life we left Brisbane heading north. We had our eyes set on Tin Can Bay and Rainbow Beach as a gateway to Fraser Island. We just needed to work out whether it would work timing wise for us.

On our way up we drove through Gympie, which is known as the town that saved Queensland due to its major economic activity due to a gold rush in the late 1860s. 

There was a museum and so we decided to stretch our legs and explore. There was a lot of old equipment ranging from gold mining, banking, printing, schooling and everything in between. 

The girls loved seeing some of the old ways things were done, such as how newspapers used to be printed and how old school classrooms used to be. I suggested we adopt the Good Manners rules in our van…

Finally the girls wanted to try their hand at gold panning, but quickly realised it was much harder than it looked. They were also very disappointed that they only found a couple of gold specks rather than the giant gold nuggets they had seen in the photos 😂🤭

After a quick lunch, it was back on the road and to our final destination of Tin Can Bay. I had some noisy bird neighbours as I tried to do my meetings, but there was a huge and spacious camp kitchen which made for a comfy office space. Working on the road is the newest adjustment to our routine, but so far so good!

Later the girls convinced me to take them to the pool despite it being late because this one was finally a heated pool! What a luxury when we’ve mainly had weather in the low 20s and lots of cold rainy spells. The mermaids did their thing and it was lovely seeing Scarly so confident in the water, sticking her head under, blowing bubbles and kicking her legs. Now this is a child that would scream and cry for a full 30 minutes in her swimming lesson just a few months ago…

We tried (and succeeded) in an early night for Scarly! Tomorrow was set to be a big day of fun and adventure ☺️

Kms travelled – 222